• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    This belongs more on Technology and Privacy communities.

    For Android users at least, I recommend the Léon URL Cleaner app, when you share a link from many common sources to the URL Cleaner, it removes all that tracking shit for you, and copies the cleaned link to the clipboard.

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      21 hours ago

      This belongs more on Technology and Privacy communities.

      I guess it was posted here to reach a broader audience.

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        18 hours ago

        I’m upset, the tech and privacy communities need to step it up cause I’ve never seen this fact. I kinda knew URLs had a lot of junk, but I never knew what could be removed.

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          16 hours ago

          The way I’ve always figured it out is by deleting some, then loading the page in a different browser or an incognito window, and repeat until the URL is as minimal as possible, while still loading correctly. For websites you use regularly, you’ll figure it out pretty quickly.